Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot in Debian

On 2010-02-27 14:37-0000 Andrew Ross wrote:
>
> I've managed to find a volunteer willing to sponsor uploads of the
> plplot packages to Debian.
>
> Packages of 5.9.5 are now back in unstable which is good news. This
> fixes most of the outstanding bugs. Once this has stabilised I
> will go ahead and package up the ocaml bindings and the qt drivers
> as 2 new packages.
This is good news, indeed.
Your Debian packaging efforts and Orion's Fedora packaging efforts are
important. According to the popularity contest statistics at
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=plplot something like 0.15 per cent
of Debian users regularly use libplplot9. If those percentages hold for the
combined RedHat, Debian, and Ubuntu users, and there are 10 million such
users (which is probably conservative), then we are talking about 15
thousand who regularly use binary versions of PLplot thanks to the packaging
efforts you and Orion make. These are obviously extremely rough estimates,
but still I think it is clear that packaged binary use of PLplot is much
higher than usage from those who build it for themselves (~3000 have
downloaded plplot-5.9.5 since its release).
Alan
__________________________
Alan W. Irwin
Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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Linux-powered Science
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I've managed to find a volunteer willing to sponsor uploads of the
plplot packages to Debian.
Packages of 5.9.5 are now back in unstable which is good news. This
fixes most of the outstanding bugs. Once this has stabilised I
will go ahead and package up the ocaml bindings and the qt drivers
as 2 new packages.
Andrew

On 2010-02-27 14:37-0000 Andrew Ross wrote:
>
> I've managed to find a volunteer willing to sponsor uploads of the
> plplot packages to Debian.
>
> Packages of 5.9.5 are now back in unstable which is good news. This
> fixes most of the outstanding bugs. Once this has stabilised I
> will go ahead and package up the ocaml bindings and the qt drivers
> as 2 new packages.
This is good news, indeed.
Your Debian packaging efforts and Orion's Fedora packaging efforts are
important. According to the popularity contest statistics at
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=plplot something like 0.15 per cent
of Debian users regularly use libplplot9. If those percentages hold for the
combined RedHat, Debian, and Ubuntu users, and there are 10 million such
users (which is probably conservative), then we are talking about 15
thousand who regularly use binary versions of PLplot thanks to the packaging
efforts you and Orion make. These are obviously extremely rough estimates,
but still I think it is clear that packaged binary use of PLplot is much
higher than usage from those who build it for themselves (~3000 have
downloaded plplot-5.9.5 since its release).
Alan
__________________________
Alan W. Irwin
Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
__________________________
Linux-powered Science
__________________________